NY Man Charged in Gas Hoarding Case

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These are the illegal buckets Yunus Latif used to fill up gas in Orange. He planned to take them to his friends and neighbors in New York CIty.

Updated at 10:17 AM EDT on Monday, Nov 5, 2012

Police arrested a 47-year-old New York man accused of filling up 30 five-gallon Home Depot buckets with gasoline on Saturday night.

According to investigators, Yunus Latif, of Richmond Hill, collected money from his neighbors, bought gas at a Valero station almost 80 miles away in Orange and planned to bring it back to his neighborhood, where they had no power and gas.

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